If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.

You jackass. We're all going to die here. You know that, right?' Harrier said. Yeah," Eugens said shakily. '...Guess I might as well die here with you as out on the desert with a bunch of other jackasses.

I think I know why you never married, Sarah." "Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.

It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.